Capacity Quote by George Eliot

When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.

— Zeena Schreck

You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.

— Ben Aaronovitch

What destroys us is not when we fail at doing something. It's the small, tiny, little bit of hope we had that we could…

— Alexa Michalec

destruction is ultimately self-destruction.

— Anais Nin

“Self-destruction can be cathartic in the worst ways possible.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

— Ralph Steadman

It becomes increasingly clear that we won’t be free of self-destructive patterns unless we develop a compassionate understanding of what they are.

— Pema Chodron

“Self-seeking is self-destruction”

— James Allen

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

— Alison Bechdel

The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.

— Rita Mae Brown

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.

— Pearl S. Buck

Self destruction in such a pretty little thing.

— Asking Alexandria